Brussels, 7th January 2020 To Executive Committee For information to ETUC Member Organisations Dear colleagues, Happy New Year! Please see attached the ETUC position on the EU enlargement adopted at the last Executive Committee meeting on 17-18 December 2019 (item 12). Best regards, Liina Carr Confederal Secretary

ETUC Executive Committee statement on the lack of Social Dialogue on Labour Law reform in Ukraine Adopted at the Executive Meeting of 17-18 December 2019 The ETUC Executive Committee expresses its concerns about the perceived lack of willingness of the Ukrainian government to undertake a proper consultation process with the social partners on the Labour Law reform and pledges to raise this with the European Commission and Parliament.

  ETUC Position for a European directive on mandatory Human Rights due diligence and responsible business conduct Adopted at the Executive Committee Meeting of 17-18 December 2019 Key Messages

Brussels 18/12/2019  ETUC position on the EU-Vietnam Free Trade and Investment Protection Agreements  Adopted at the Executive Committee Meeting of 17-18 December 2019 Background

Brussels 30 October 2019 ETUC position for an inclusive European Green Deal Adopted at the ETUC Executive Committee of 23 October 2019

Statement on Albania and North Macedonia accession to the EU We regret the decision of the European Council not to open accession negotiations with Albania and North Macedonia and express our solidarity with workers and their trade unions from these counties. They face enormous challenges of decent work deficits, non-respect of the law, low wages, high levels of informal work, as well as systematic violation of fundamental workers’ rights and freedoms.

The ETUC stands in solidarity with the Chilean trade unions and the Chilean people in the biggest crisis of the country since the end of the military dictatorship. We join the call of CUT Chile and the ITUC for the Government to restore the country's democratic institutions and give way to the biggest protest since 1990.

The ETUC has been calling for improvements of the rules on the coordination of social security systems for years. We need improvements to the current rules to better fight against abuses and fraud and to strengthen mobile workers’, posted workers’ and frontier workers’ rights, as well as to improve and operationalise the cooperation between Member States. Now it is possible to deliver much needed improvements to the legal framework by completing in a positive manner the negotiations on the revision of the Regulations on the coordination of social security systems.

Dear Presidents, Prime Minister, Vice President, Commissioner, Ministers, Colleagues from the social partners, This is the last Tripartite Social Summit of the current European Commission, and also the last for Donald Tusk as President of the Council. I would like to warmly thank Donald for the support and leadership you have shown in organising and driving the TSS over the last years. You have done this giving great consideration to the social partners’ ideas and proposals.

Statement signed by over 80 NGOs and trade unions A call for human rights and environmental due diligence legislation

Brussels 26/09/2019 ETUC Position: WTO Reform to promote sustainable development, social justice and decent work Adopted at the Executive Committee Meeting of 20th September 2019

The European Commission has published today its Implementation Report on the Enforcement Directive on posting of workers, as well as a practical guidance on the rules regulating posting.

Statement presented at the ETUC EWC Annual conference 2019 Democracy at work is a fundamental value and a guiding principle of the European Union, recognised in the Treaties and in the Charter of Fundamental Rights. It needs to be high on any ambitious European and national political agenda. Democracy at work matters: for workers, for companies, for public services and for society.